According to a survey conducted by Nielsen in the United States, YouTube continues to be the reigning king of online video, with over 130 million unique US visits in November alone. YouTube’s closest competitor in unique visits is VEVO, the prominent online music video site, which came in at just under 43 million. Most impressively,...
Image: Daniel Goodman / Business Insider Editor’s note: Fab Founder Jason Goldberg put together this slide deck about his company’s crazy 2011. Fab.com is a mini magazine that curates fashion products and designs for its members. It also sets up flash sales and pop-up stores for designers. On the site, you can find design...
I’m sitting in a café on the Champs d’Elysees amid the electric atmosphere of streetlights, neon signs, cars, trucks, shoppers, gawkers, storekeepers, and restaurateurs — an abundance of energy. Energy has driven the development of modern civilization and conveniences. And renewable energy supplies are growing fast. But like any disruptive technology, the growing flocks...
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According to CNBC, Verizon has changed its mind on charging customers $2 to make a payment online or on the phone. The charge has drawn criticism and backlash from both customers and the FCC, who were reportedly looking into the situation. Verizon Reverses Decision to Charge $2 Fee For Payments Over Phone/Web; Verizon Reversed...
It looks like Go Daddy isn’t the only company drawing ire from the Internet over support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Sony also supports the act, and Anonymous isn’t too pleased about it. The hacker group posted a messaging threatening an attack against Sony as well as Sony recording artists that include...
While Symbian seems to be Nokia’s unloved child and is fading in terms of worldwide shipments, it isn’t ready to be completely written off yet. The platform is still the leader in mobile web browsing according to StatCounter, which tracks web usage. StatCounter’s figures, which Royal Pingdom examined, show that Symbian took a 33.55...
It’s an odd world we live in when a group of Internet denizens can raise a sufficient stink that a very influential member of the US House of Representatives has to issue a short statement refuting some audaciously false claims. That the statement was released on Facebook makes the moment all the more surreal. Paul Ryan, like...
Image: Android Market See Also: This Alarm Clock App Automatically Adjusts Your Wake-Up Time Depending On How Crappy The Weather Is THE GOOGLE INVESTOR: Pentagon Approves Android Devices For Department Of Defense COMSCORE: Android Has 47% Of The Mobile Market It was a slow week for Android. Well, a slow week for all of...
We all know that cyberspace can be a nasty place, but a new study from Bitdefender shows exactly how easy it is to compromise personal information across social media. The study found 100 people at random that fit into two categories – professional IT security workers and hackers – and used a phony social...